Shown is a statue built on Geoje Island, South Gyeongsang Province, on Jan. 16, 2014 to console hundreds of thousands of sex slaves, mostly Koreans, who were forced to serve as sex slaves for front-line Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Ko Young-jin, the superintendent of the education office of South Gyeongsang Province, presents books containing the testimonies of Kim Bok-deuk, 97, the oldest surviving victim of Japanese sex slavery during World War II, to the comfort woman statue in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 16, 2014. The office recently published the books in Korean, Japanese and English for distribution abroad to let foreigners know the atrocities done to the victims by the Japanese government.

A masked-Seoul citizen walks along a downtown street in Seoul on Jan. 17, 2014, as the level of fine particles approaching from China surpassed 100 micrograms per cubic meter in Seoul and its vicinities. Weathermen forecast a further inflow of high-density ultrafine dust from China, where the dust level exceeded 500 micrograms in Beijing and other major cities earlier in the day.